What I know about Telefund

It is not a friendly company. Not toward its employees and certainly not to the people being called.

Telefund is hired by a number of organizations to call people, either current members or not, in an attempt to convince them to give money / donate. Most of the time, these people get called far too often and there is some serious donor fatigue and many of them are not able to give beyond their annual membership because they are either older, poor or students. Call backs that are set mean absolutely nothing as the antiquated computer and software system ignore call back dates and times in the majority of cases as a list is, as they call it, recycled - called again once the end is reached.

As for employees. They often have to be very vigilant of their time or there is a chance of being shorted and if not caught in time, the company cares little to correct the problem. Many times bonuses are listed as 'TBA' which means they can pay whatever they want, or nothing, and because of their team of lawyers, its legal.

If an employee, like myself, figures out how the company can manipulate what they pay someone, they are forced into the lowest pay scale and given most unpleasant list(s) to call, virtually guaranteeing their income to not rise and their performance to go down. I figured this out and managed to raise over $2,500 for an organization in one day, and no one bothered to cheer me on or say well done, as they do to with their favorite pet employees. The following week, one of the people in management decided to move me quickly from one campaign we were calling on to another, lowering my pay to its lowest possible and then threaten me with my job if I did not improve.

Everything I have said here I have personally experienced, and I suspect a good number of former employees have too. I ask only this, if you get a call from Telefund, check your callerId, or ask, by law they should tell you, yourself removed from the calling list. You will also need to call the organization they were calling for, to make sure your name is forever removed the calling list, because Telefund wont do it, they leave it up to the organization and wash their hands of any responsibility if it is not removed.

George W. Bush Resume, posted online

That's right kids, the resume of George W. Bush is online for your reading pleasure. Rather than cut and paste it here, please follow this link: George W. Bush Resume. Enjoy.

SOS indeed

Events like SOS, Live Earth are misguided attempts at doing good. No different than the use of Double Speak to lie to you under a guise of being truthful. So, the word gets out about Global Warming and the need of reducing our Carbon Foot Print. But, what good is it if the event:

• Causes the loss of a whole forest used for fliers, office paper, tickets and more,
• Offsetting the carbon debt is just a white-wash way to pretend the carbon produced is taken care of,
  
• The event is more about making millions of dollars which is not used to plant trees or do anyone but the uncaring already rich any good
• Will people be allowed to bring reusable containers to the concert to hold their drinks or are millions of plastic bottles and cups just going to be thrown out?

Visiting the website doesn't make me want to go. They also mention something about fighting global warming, making adjustments to reduce or offset their carbon debt and yet, its still not enough. I wish people would wake up to the money grubbiness of some people who will do whatever to make sure that you keep them rich under the guise of doing good.

Is this concert really a failure in disguise?